To be honest i don't mind admitting that i am a little worried about this one. Every 100 years or so a major global outbreak occurs that kills millions, and i'm sure that this is it. I don't mean to sound like i'm scare mongering, and i know that there's nothing we can really do, but that doesn't stop me worrying. I've read someones post above that there is allready a vaccine ready to go. I think you'll find that is for the H5N1 strain and NOT the strain that can pass from human - human. That strain remains unknown and as such a vaccine can't even begin to be developed until it occurs. That will involve the H5N1 flu mutating inside a human along with a normal common flu virus - and once this occurs not only will it be airborn, but it will also pass just like the common cold between human and human. The bad thing about this flu is also a good thing. What i mean by this is it has about a 90% mortality rate, so practically everybody who gets it will die - and i know that is really bad, and if it was one of your relatives (may God forbid and touch wood it never happens) but because of the high mortality rate - it means that the virus will be slow at spreading because the virus's host i.e., chicken, human, or whatever doesn't live long enough to infect more hosts. Anyway, enough said, i've dribbled on for long enough allready.
Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Who's throwing it, The Hulk?
Hhahaha 😄 Perhaps, I was actually thinking of a giant catapult maybe.
But it is something that just gets said about things relatively close, I mean, our government has used it when talking about the risk of Asian terrorism. That JI are just a stone throw away (though if it were so, I guess we could actually drive them off with a hail of stones. Take that! We'd cry victoriously.)
Still the thought goes that a bird flu infected pigeon flaps it's wings in Bali, and an epidemic strikes Australia. Scare mongering really.